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Part of a model showing the layout of closes off the Royal Mile Anchor Close. The Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, consisted originally of the main street, now known as the Royal Mile, and the small alleyways and courtyards that led off it to the north and south. These were usually named after a memorable occupant of one of the apartments ...
Mary King's Close. Mary King's Close is a historic close located under the Edinburgh City Chambers building on the Royal Mile, in the historic Old Town area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It took its name from one Mary King, a merchant burgess who resided on the Close in the 17th century.
The term was first used descriptively in W. M. Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), describing the city "with its Castle and Palace and the royal mile between", and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook by R. T. Skinner published in 1920, "The Royal Mile (Edinburgh) Castle to Holyrood(house)". [2]
The Scottish capital will host ceremonial events marking the passing of the Queen on Monday.
The "Royal Mile" is a name coined in the early 20th century for the main street of the Old Town which runs on a downwards slope from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace and the ruined Holyrood Abbey. Narrow closes (alleyways), often no more than a few feet wide, lead steeply downhill to both north and south of the main spine which runs west to ...
Prince Andrew and Ferguson, who is popularly known as Fergie, divorced in 1996 after a decade of marriage, but remain close today and continue to live at Royal Lodge in Windsor.
White Horse Close, or "Whitehorse Close", is an enclosed courtyard off the Canongate at the foot of the Royal Mile at the eastern end of the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. History [ edit ]
The current building was originally built as the Royal Exchange, which was funded by subscription and commissioned in 1753. [2] It was designed by John Adam with detail alterations by John Fergus. [1] The building works absorbed many small streets, commonly known in Edinburgh as "closes", that ran north to south across the breadth of the site.